Crossing the Centuries
Description
To help fulfill my purpose in this life, I must find out about my past.
Two hundred years. Interviews with one hundred and sixty-five spirits. Two years of writing. You are about to read a memoir unlike any other!
Have you ever wondered why you are you? Where you fit in you long line of ancestors?
Writer, psychic and intuitive medium, Brenda Hammon, wondered about her ancestors and their stories her entire life, and spent over twenty years researching them. After hiring genealogical investigators, doing hundreds of hours of research, and travelling to the United States to visit graveyards from the American Civil War - Brenda knew there was so much more to her ancestors' stories.
She wanted to bring her dead family members back to life. And she decided to do something that's never been done before. Brenda used her many spiritual gifts to connect with ancestors who died almost two hundred years ago. And it worked!
Who showed up in her home office and sometimes spun in her office chair? American Civil War soldiers. Farmers and pioneers. Women who didn't have the right to vote but who held their families together. Children. Mothers and fathers and grandparents. Convicts and murderers. Mysterious energies and experiences that will keep you reading long into the night.
This spiritual memoir is filled with Brenda's ancestors' stories; and historical documents and facts relevant to when they lived, loved, and died. She also takes you on her own journey of how her gifts came to be and why they grew in intensity over the years.
You'll never look at your family tree the same way again!
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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
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3 - Stephen Hammond - Ohio
4 - Benjamin Hammond - The Farmer - Connecticut - 1809
5 - Benjamin Hammond - The Soldier - Connecticut - 1812
6 - Benjamin Hammond - The Westward Pioneer - 1819
7 - Benjamin Hammond - Homesteader - Ohio - 1820
8 - Mary Throgmorten - The Stepmother - Ohio - 1826
9 - Benjamin Hammond - A Mysterious Sighting - Ohio - 1932
10 - Appalachian Mountains - 1841
11 - The Dains, Jacob & Margaret - Ohio - 1805
12 - Mary 'Polly' Dains - Spencer - 1809
13 - Jacob - The Union Private - 1813
14 - Jacob Dains - Back Home - 1814
15 - Fanny & Felix Dains - Double Deaths - 1820
16 - Stephen Hammond - The Youthful One - Connecticut 1809
17 - Stephen Hammond - Ohio Bound - 1819
18 - Tecumseh - 1811
19 - Stephen Hammond - After The Steamboat - 1820
20 - Stephen Hammond - The Meeting - 1828
21 - Benji - The Discovery - 1828
22 - Stephen Hammond - The Wedding - 1830
23 - Mary 'Polly' Dains - Spencer, Ohio - 1828
24 - Stephen & Mary 'Polly' Hammond - 1830
25 - Mary 'Polly' Hammond - 1830
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27 - Stephen Hammond - Spencer County, Ohio - 1840
28 - Two Deaths - Philip and Martha - 1835 & 1841 Ohio
29 - Mrs. Crawley and Hilda - The Midwife - 1842
30 - Benjamin Hammond - Stephen's Father - 1846
31 - Leaving Ghosts Behind- Jacob Hammond - Ohio - 1857
32 - Stephen and Polly Hammond - October 1857, Vinton County, Ohio
33 - Mary 'Polly' Hammond - Moving 1858-1859
34 - Thomas McKibben - Vinton County - 1859
35 - Mary 'Polly" Hammond - Vinton County - July 1859
36 - Mary McKibben - Surviving - 1860
37 - Jacob Dains - Death - 1860
38 - Mary 'Polly' McKibben - Time for a Change - December 1860
39 - Thomas McKibben - December 1860
40 - Brenda - 2023
41 - Mary 'Polly' McKibben - New Beginnings - Ohio - 1860
42 - Mary Jane Hammond - Ohio - 1851
43 - Catherine Hammond - Ohio 1832-1887
44 - James (Jim) Hartley - The Miner 1860
45 - James (Jim) Hartley - The Civil War - 1862
46 - Private Jacob Hammond - The Civil War - 1860
47 - Jacob Hammond - Seal, Pike County, Ohio - 1865
48 - Temperance Fouty - Jacob's second wife - 1862
49 - Andersonville Prisoner Camp, Georgia - 1864
50 - Temperance Hammond - Ohio - 1878
51 - The Shoot Out - Ohio - 1885
52 - Margaret Edith Hammond - Ohio - 1859
53 - Francis Marion Hammond - Illinois Infantry - 1861
54 - Convalescent Camp - Camp Misery, Cowan Tennessee - 1863
55 - Francis M. Hammond - A New Life - 1868
56 - Brenda - My Spirits Have Spoken - December 2023
57 - George Hammond - Ohio - 1860-1864
58 - Sarah Hammond - Jasper North - Ohio - 1861
59 - Sarah Hammond - Ohio - 1868
60 - Isaiah Hammond - Ohio - 1860
61 - Susannah (Susan) Hammond - Ohio, 1855-1932
62 - Jefferson (Jeff) Hammond - Trimble, Ohio 1855
63 - Jefferson (Jeff) Hammond - Kansas Territory 1859
64 - Jefferson Hammon - The Union Private - 1861
65 - Jefferson and Rachel Hammon - Kansas - 1864
66 - Rachel Hammon - Kansas - February 1867
67 - Jefferson Hammon - Kansas - February 1867
+ 15 Additional Chapters covering individuals from 1867-1936 and author comments
